Defence industry

The three largest cloud companies in the world are fighting over a huge contract with aerospace giant Boeing. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are bidding for the deal, which could be worth more than $1bn over several years, multiple people familiar with the negotiations told The Information. Boeing already operates a hybrid IT model, shifting some of its workloads to AWS and Azure from around 2011.

In 2016, it moved closer to Microsoft, partnering on Advanced Aviation Analytics, and other cloud programs.

But like all older large enterprises, it has amassed a large data center footprint, including some picked up through multiple acquisitions. In 2015, it said it was seeking to consolidate its operations to three key facilities - in the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and one on the East Coast.

Web hosting company Hostway also operates a data center at Boeing International's worldwide headquarters, but it is a colocation facility open to other customers...MORE